I'm soliciting papers on Deleuze and Derrida (see description below) tobe presented at the 2008 ACLA conference ("Arrivals and Departures") inLong Beach, CA April 2008. Although not actively planning to present onthis panel I am helping convene research currently being done on thetopic. Please send abstracts to the conference URL listed at the bottomof this message but send any questions directly to park0599_at_umn.edu.Peace.

***CFP: DELEUZE & DERRIDA***Undeniably, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida commands anextraordinary global presence in critical theory, cultural studies,literary theory, and other scholarly areas. Alongside such luminaries asFoucault and Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida are two of the most influentialPost-war French theorists to have undergone an Anglophone reception. Yetdespite the recent eruption of theoretical work, by Eric Alliez, PaulPatton, Eugene W. Holland and others, relatively little has been writtenputting these philosophers in direct dialogue with one another.

This seminar is designed to â€œtraverseâ€ the work of Deleuze and Derrida.Instead of using a compare and contrast model, which ultimately may do adisservice to both, we encourages essays exploring the â€œmovementâ€ betweenthe two. We proceed from the premise that a â€œtraversalâ€ approach, whichbrings to mind the act of â€œcrossingâ€ â€œpenetrationâ€ and even â€œreadingthrough or considering thoroughly,â€ will engender the most productiveconversations. As both theorists are perhaps best known as â€œphilosophersof differenceâ€ we are especially concerned with how Deleuze and Derridaâ€™srespective philosophies of difference run parallel, crash, and jointlyblaze trails for hybrid theories of difference which can then be appliedto a multitude of contemporary objects.

Ideas for paper topics include the synthesis of Deleuze and Derrida vis-Ã -vis: